Famine-Affected, Refugee, and Displaced Populations

Table 5

TABLE 5. Prevalence of acute undernutrition (<80% median weight-for-height)

         among children <5 years of age in refugee populations

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                     Host        Country                        Prevalence (%)

Dates     (ref)     country      of Origin      Population     acute undernutrition

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1979       (15)   Thailand      Kampuchea         31,900          10.0-18.0

1980       (16)   Somalia       Ethiopia         700,000          21.7-28.4

1984-85    (17)   Pakistan      Afghanistan    2,500,000           2.3-3.5

1988       (18)   Malawi        Mozambique       400,000           2.1-6.1

1988-89    (19)   Ethiopia      Somalia          400,000          12.9-29.5

1990       (20)   Guinea        Liberia          400,000           5.3

1990*             Ethiopia      Sudan             25,000          45.0

1991+             Kenya         Somalia           50,000          29.0

1991       (10)   Iraq/Turkey   Iraq             400,000           4.1

                  Border

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*UNHCR-Kenya. MacAskill J, December 1991.

+CDC. Toole M, trip report, July 1990.

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